1852 in Sweden

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Events from the year 1852 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Oscar I

Events

• 3 April – Henrik Reuterdahl is appointed the Minister of Education and Ecclesiastical Affairs.

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  Prince Gustaf and King Oscar I pictured in 1852. Gustaf would go on to die that same year in Norway.

  8 May – Sweden signs the London Protocol, an international treaty that seeks to resolve Denmark's territorial integrity.
• 4 October – Sweden and Finland 'skip' 10 days in order to align with the spring equinox according to the Gregorian calendar.
• Amalia Assur becomes the first female dentist in Sweden.
• The manufacturer Hästens is established.
• Kungsportsplatsen is inaugurated.
• Sophia Posse takes over the girls' school Hammarstedtska skolan.
• The Factory and Handicrafts Ordinance of 1846 is amended to prohibit night work for labourers under the age of 18.
• Academic jurisdiction, formerly permitting universities to rule as courts over their students and faculty, is abolished.
• Knappfors Lock in the Bergslagen Canal is completed, connecting Karlskoga and Bofors to Sjöändan.

Births

• 25 April – Fritz Eckert, architect (died 1920)
• 23 May – Mathilda Grabow, soprano opera singer (died 1940)
• 13 June – Anna Whitlock, social reformer and women's rights activist (died 1930)
• 24 November – Helena Munktell, composer (died 1919)
• 14 December – Prince Carl Oscar, Duke of Södermanland, prince (died 1854)

Deaths

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  Aurora Vilhelmina Koskull (1830)

  19 February – Aurora Wilhelmina Koskull, politically active salonnière (born 1778)
• 3 April – Marie-Louise af Forsell, diarist (born 1812)
• 25 May – Charlotta Berger, writer (born 1784)
• 18 June – Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland, composer (born 1827)
• 20 July – Gustav Åbergsson, actor (born 1775)

Undated

• Ulrika Åberg, ballerina (born 1771)
• Laura Bergnéhr, actress (born 1831)
• Mor Kerstin i Stämmemand-Kinna, Swedish industrialist (born 1774)

Publications

• Louise Brunius publishes three novels under the pseudonym L-E: Skalden och sångerskan ('The Poet and the Singer'), En mystification ('A Mystification'), and I hemmet och ute i verlden ('At Home and in the World').